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Speaker Johnson Explains Holdup In Releasing Jan 6 Tapes: ‘We Have To Blur Some Of The Faces’ To Protect Them From The DOJ (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 202 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It is the exact textbook definition of obstruction of justice. It doesn't get any more obstruction of justice than to literally hide identities with the express stated goal of obstructing the work of the Department of Justice.

He's taking a page out of Trump’s "it's not a crime if you brag about it on tv" playbook.

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey everybody, we doin' crimes and shit. Whatchu gonna do about it

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You have the perfect username to make that comment 😆👌

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He killed me with a sword, how weird is that

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Signal still going though, though, so you were vindicated on THAT 🤷

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Fortunately for the FBI, and for anyone who still believes in democracy, most of these idiots brought their smartphones with them so video hasn't even been necessary to secure convictions. And lots of them recorded video themselves, OF themselves, in order to brag about their crimes online.

[–] BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Of course, why take precautions? They didn't expect to lose. They expected King Trump to be crowned and bring his chosen people to paradise, and they wanted to make sure they weren't left out.

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

Yeah, although something tells me that a lot of them aren't exactly the type who think very far ahead regardless of what they expected the outcome of that day to be.

[–] Mamertine@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They then uploaded the videos to parlor which had no security on their API, so anyone with the address could download every video.

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

That's hilarious, I forgot about that part. Parlor probably didn't bother to strip out the metadata either, did they? So, full GPS coordinates with every image and video... hahahaha